Built From Ashes
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The walls of the Blackwood estate had always been cold, but tonight, they were colder.
Ana stood stiffly in the center of the marble-floored foyer, the chandelier above casting fractured light over her wedding dress. Not a flower out of place. Not a smile on her lips.
Alex Blackwood didn't speak. His tailored suit was pristine, his posture rigid-like he was attending a board meeting, not standing beside his new wife. The silence between them was a battlefield, crackling with tension neither of them bothered to mask.
Their marriage had been signed with pens, not promises. Witnessed by lawyers, not loved ones.
The deal was simple: Alex got the money to rescue his father's failing empire. Ana became the bride her father proudly offered, the perfect token of loyalty in a billion-dollar merger.
Neither wanted this.
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